ART-LOVERS BID FAREWELL TO GREAT ARMENIAN PAINTER SARGIS MURADIAN
Noyan Tapan
Jul 16 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. On July 14, art-lovers bade their
farewell to the RA People’s Painter, USSR state prize-winner,
corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Art, professor Sargis
Muradian.
"Today we are bidding farewell to one of the best Armenian painters.
Armenian artistic culture has been enriched by Sargis Muradian’s
creations.
The painter’s name will always remain in the history of Armenian
people’s culture," the RA Deputy Minister of Culture, Gagik Gyurjian
said.
In the words of Karen Aghamian, the Chairman of the Union of Painters
of Armenia, today Armenian painting has lost one of its greatest
painters.
However, K. Aghamian said that S. Muradian is one of the painters,
whose name is immortal in all centuries. Paravon Mirzoyan, the Director
of the Armenian National Gallery, said that S. Muradian’s merit is
so great in the Armenian painting that the next generations have no
right to forget such a painter and excellent pedagogue.
"S. Muradian has devoted his whole life to the Armenian people. Only
his last canvas "The Last Night: Komitas" is the evidence of his being
a patriot, and his worshipping his nation was the greatest guarantee
for me.
Great people remain in my mind forever. For me, S. Muradian is one of
the great people going to that eternity," RA People’s Artist Vladimir
Abajian said.
S. Muradian was buried at Yerevan’s town Pantheon.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
